Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Junketing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Junketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Junketing}.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. -- Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Junketing \Jun"ket*ing\, n.
A feast or entertainment; a revel.
All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for
which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with
their modern successors. -- W. Irving.
The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon
the altar. -- South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
junketing
n : taking an excursion for pleasure
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